Maury issues the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic

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1. Story
2. Maury compiled abstracts from thousands of ships' logbooks held at the Depot of Charts and Instruments into charts of prevailing winds and surface currents, distributed to captains in exchange for their own completed logs. The scheme worked because it paid participants in the currency they wanted — shorter passages — and it produced the first large-scale empirical picture of surface circulation.
3. Knowledge
4. Gulf Stream
5. Matthew Fontaine Maury
6. Maury issues the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic
7. Connections
8. Matthew Fontaine Maury
9. Gulf Stream
10. The Brussels maritime conference standardises ocean observation
11. Maury issues the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic
12. The Brussels maritime conference standardises ocean observation
13. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
14. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
15. Western Intensification of Wind-Driven Gyres
16. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
17. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
18. North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
19. RAPID-MOCHA-WBTS Array at 26.5°N
20. The Gulf Stream is charted to explain slow mail
21. Maury issues the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic
22. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
23. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
24. Evidence
25. The first comprehensive treatment of ocean winds and currents as a system, compiled from standardised ships' logbooks; commonly described as the first textbook of modern oceanography. The digitised volume was identified but not read; biographical facts about Maury come from Naval History and Heritage Command and encyclopaedia entries read via search summary.